Dashe & Thomson
APRIL 17, 2011
I have included Kirkpatrick’s Four Levels of Evaluation in every proposal I have ever written, and I wanted to hear from Kirkpatrick himself regarding his take on the current state of evaluation and whether his four levels are still viable. Well, based on where Kirkpatrick and his son James are today, I was completely wrong.
Dashe & Thomson
MARCH 15, 2011
And as time has gone by, I have started to wonder about the validity of Kirkpatrick in today’s world. The title was “Expanding ROI in Training Programs Using Scriven, Kirkpatrick, and Brinkerhoff,” which sounds pretty academic. What I liked was that McGoldrick didn’t critique the Kirkpatrick model. But it wasn’t.
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Dashe & Thomson
JANUARY 20, 2012
Recent research by ASTD and REED Learning indicates that the top skills desired by Learning & Development departments are measuring and evaluating training. The “chain of evidence” supports the results, showing the value learning and reinforcement has provided to the business. Kirkpatrick calls this Return on Expectations, or ROE.
Upside Learning
AUGUST 31, 2009
In November 1959, Donald Kirkpatrick published a series of seminal articles on training evaluation in the ‘Journal of the ASTD’. In short, it suggests that providing excellent training does not lead to significant transfer of learning to behavior and subsequent results without deliberate and consistent reinforcement.
Upside Learning
MAY 2, 2013
Kirkpatrick’s evaluation model has long been the holy grail of training effectiveness measurement to businesses. Provide training that addresses the knowledge and skills required for the adoption of strategic initiatives and the execution of strategic change. ASTD ICE 2013 | May 19 – 22 | Dallas, TX, USA | Stand #839.
Learning Visions
MAY 7, 2014
These are my live blogged notes from a concurrent session (W104) at the ASTD International Conference & Expo, this week in Washington, D.C. James Kirkpatrick, Senior Consultant Kirkpatrick Partners Sometimes we have to do the politically incorrect thing. Forgive any typos or incoherencies.
Clive on Learning
APRIL 21, 2008
While acknowledging that Kirkpatrick's four levels of evaluation had proved valuable over more than thirty years in helping to measure instructor-led, content-based 'training' interventions, Sloman felt that a new approach was necessary to support a more self-directed, work-based 'learning' process. Not that ROI is in any way a red herring.
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